Needed a flash drive to relieve some space off my iPhone. With the iXpand, I’m able to move photos between my iPhone and desktop with relative ease. I wish the price was a little lower. I also don’t like how the phones were organized in so many folders when I opened it on the desktop; I had a lot of trouble finding photos.

Great bit of kit but do not try to import everything at once.

I have an iPhone and I’ve found it’s best to store pictures etc into folders (months) and import 20-50 items at a time otherwise it crashes.

Everything is good about the product per se, but the associated app is not straightforward in working out how to perform various tasks

My wife is in a local choir and I like to go to concerts and video them. Sometimes it’s convenient to video on my Huawei p30pro and then edit on my iPad afterwards. The problem is for decent quality video the file’s can be Gigabytes and wireless transfer can take ages between the two different devices. So finally giving up on the other methods I bought this disk. It’s quite expensive but does what I need perfectly and quickly.

In the Android phone it’s just a standard memory disk so just use your file manager of choice to copy files to it and then unmount the stick before physically removing. The transfer is very fast!

In the iPad you are encouraged to download the app. You should definitely do this! The app lets you save from the disk directly into the photo app. You can manage without the app if you want to but it means first saving to a user defined folder and then saving a second time into the photo app.

It’s well made of metal and is a high quality device. Yes expensive for what it does but will save you a lot of time and trouble if you are transferring files between devices with different operating system such as iPadOS and Android. I also bought a small memory stick holder for 6 devices because something like this can get lost so easily.

This a good purchase that will get used a lot!

Siempre he sido consciente de la necesidad de tener una copia de seguridad de las fotos y vdeos del mvil, ya que muchos de ellos son de momentos irrepetibles, pero ha sido una tarea que siempre he pospuesto por cualquier circunstancia. Ahora, gracias a esta memoria USB la operacin es tan sencilla como enchufarla en el puerto del telfono, abrir su aplicacin y dejar que se transfiera todo el contenido.

He realizado una copia de seguridad de un total de ms de 3.700 fotos y vdeos en poco menos de hora y media. Se guarda todo en carpetas con el nmero de ao, y dentro de cada una de ellas hay subcarpetas con el nmero y el nombre del mes, por lo que es muy fcil localizar determinada foto o vdeo si se conoce cundo se realiz.

Fsicamente, la memoria es pequea, por lo que puede llevarse encima sin que moleste, incluso colgada de un llavero. Algo que me genera dudas es la pieza giratoria de plstico que lleva para proteger uno de los puertos mientras se usa el otro: recin estrenada se mantiene fija en su sitio, pero desconozco si con el uso se aflojar y ya no servir como proteccin. Personalmente hubiese preferido que se protegieran ambos puertos con sendos tapones de plstico o bien que fuesen retrctiles.

Un apunte para quien compre esta memoria: hay que fijarse bien que la clavija del puerto Lightning que lleva incorporado sea de la misma longitud que la del cable del iPhone. Me vi obligado a devolver la primera que haba comprado ya que la clavija era ligeramente ms corta que la del cable de mi iPhone, y al introducirla en el mvil no quedaba bien sujeta, por lo que el telfono no la detectaba.

It took a little while and some experimentation, but having worked out how best to use the ixpand flash drive I am really pleased with how well it works. It was a present for my non technically minded friend, who, once I had set up everything, sent me an email saying – The flash disk gadget is amazing, I am absolutely delighted with it.
The 64GB flash drive has solved all her storage and back up problems and provided me with an easy way to let her have copies of photographs taken during our outings together. We both find the flash drive very easy to use. It plugs in securely and neatly into the ipad and just three basic commands appear on the Home Page when using the APP. These are ‘Copy Files’, ‘View Files’ and ‘Back up and restore’. There is also a little cog symbol in the top right hand side of the App’s Home Page page that if clicked leads you to online help and support.
Here are some things I discovered that others might find useful. When the flash drive is first plugged into your Apple ipad or iPhone you are given the option to use automatic backup to back up your photo library, music and contacts list. This seemed to us a good idea and, as my friend didn’t have many photos and only seven videos everything was backed up very speedily, the end result though disappointed us. In hind sight it wasn’t a good choice, choosing to manually copy the photos and videos we wanted to back up was, I discovered, a much better option.
Automatically backing up our music files and contact list worked well. There were however two problems with using automatic back up for photos and videos. The first problem was that automatic backup doesn’t copy your albums it copies your camera roll so when you come to look at your photos you will find they are split up into lots of different dated folders with names that mean very little. Strangely too, we found the photos themselves weren’t visible until I had used the flash drive on my computer and chosen to view them as large icons. The other downside to automatic backup was that, so the backup process doesn’t take too long, all the backed up photos were compressed slightly. This doesn’t really matter when you view them on your ipad or iPhone as they will still look ok on those but it is not ideal if, for example, you decided to use them to create an A4 sized print.
The best way to back up videos and photos is, I think, to use the Copy Files option. Doing this allows you to copy files from your ipad/iphone to the flash drive or from the flash drive to your ipad/iphone.
If you choose to copy photos from your ipad/iphone, you can either click on ‘photos’ and tick the photos you want to copy or click on ‘albums’ and click ‘select all’ to copy all the photos in an album. It is then possible to create a folder on the flash drive, click ‘copy here’ and all the selected photos go in the created folder. They are not compressed and appear at full size. For this reason it is probably best not to try to copy too many photos at once and best to copy videos seperately from photos. The end result – Being able to view your files as albums in folders is, I believe, much better than viewing them in lots and lots of seperate folders, arranged according to the date when a photo was taken.
Using the ixpand flash drive on a computer is very easy as, when plugged into a USB socket, the flash drive functions just like a normal USB memory stick. I chose to copy and paste albums of photos from my computer into the Photos folder of the flash drive and copy and paste videos into the videos folder of the flash drive. It was then just a matter of plugging the drive into the ipad and choosing View files to see them on that.
The flash drive was purchased at a very good price as I was able to buy it via one of Amazon’s special lightning deals.

I often have to give presentations where I have to hand over a USB flash drive to the AV staff. This is difficult when you have used an iPad to make a presentation in Keynote or Powerpoint. This drive solves the problem. Very easy to set up; download the iExpand software from the App Store, plug in the iXpand drive and you have nearly 32GB of extra storage at your disposal. You can share Keynote or powerpoint files easily to the drive, which can then be opened on a PC/laptop. I was impressed at how easy it was to set up and use. I have knocked off a star for the cost. Transfer to a USB drive can also be achieved using the SanDisk wireless drive https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Connect-32-Wireless-Stick/dp/B00ZCFYT5K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1529478723&sr=8-2&keywords=sandisk+wireless+usb+stick which is nearly half the price, but more of a faff to use. So in this case you really do pay for the convenience of plug and play.